Chemical Computing Group is a

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company specializing in research software for computational chemistry,

bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field of science that develops methods and Bioinformatics software, software tools for understanding biological data, especially when the data sets are large and complex. Bioinformatics uses biology, ...

cheminformatics Cheminformatics (also known as chemoinformatics) refers to the use of physical chemistry theory with computer and information science techniques—so called "'' in silico''" techniques—in application to a range of descriptive and prescriptive ...

, docking, pharmacophore searching and molecular simulation. The company's main customer base consists of pharmaceutical and

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companies, as well as

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research groups. It is a private company that was founded in 1994; it is based in

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, Canada. Its main product, Molecular Operating Environment (MOE), is written in a self-contained programming system, the Scientific Vector Language (SVL).

Products

* MOE (Molecular Operating Environment) MOE is a drug discovery software platform that integrates visualization, modeling, and simulations, as well as methodology development. MOE scientific applications are used by biologists, medicinal chemists and computational chemists in pharmaceutical, biotechnology and academic research. MOE runs on

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, and

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. Main application areas: Structure-Based Design, Fragment-Based Design, Pharmacophore Discovery, Medicinal Chemistry Applications, Biologics Applications, Protein and Antibody Modeling, Molecular Modeling and Simulations, Cheminformatics & QSAR * PSILO: A Protein Structure Database SystemPSILO: A Protein Structure Database System
PSILO is a protein structure database system that provides a repository for macromolecular and protein-ligand structural information. It allows research organizations to track, register and search both experimental and computational macromolecular structural data. A web-browser interface facilitates the searching and accessing of public and private structural data.

References

External links

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Excellence Award for student posters
at ACS National Meetings
Review of MOE 2005.06

Molecular fingerprints in MOE
* Discussion of Binary QSAR: Jürgen Bajorath (2004), Chemoinformatics: Concepts, Methods, and Tools for Drug Discovery page 92 {{ISBN, 978-1-58829-261-2 Research support companies Software companies of Canada Companies based in Montreal Molecular modelling software